12.4.24 Bernhardsson Chamber Masterclass

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CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC

Chamber Music Department – Si-Yan Darren Li, director


presents a
CHAMBER MUSIC MASTERCLASS
with

SIBBI BERNHARDSSON
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 12:45pm, Mixon Hall

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 Claude Debussy


I. Animé et très décidé (1862–1918)
Quartet Asperitas
Angelina Dong, violin
Evan Pyne, violin
Joshua Felser, viola
April Lee, cello

Quartettsatz, D. 703 Franz Schubert


(1797–1828)
Tomka Quartet
Karen Ferry, violin
Sebastian Orellana, violin
Lourdes Pinney, viola
Annamarie Wellems, cello

String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85 Béla Bartók


II. Seconda parte: Allegro (1881–1945)
III. Recapitulazione della prima parte: Moderato
IV. Coda: Allegro molto
Kosmos Quartet
Noelle Naito, violin
Jeremy Foster, violin
Aubrey Williamson, viola
Andrea Wang, cello
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Angelina Dong, violin, is an undergraduate student from Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and studies with Jaime
Laredo and Jessica Lee.
Evan Pyne, violin, is an undergraduate student from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and studies with Ilya
Kaler.
Joshua Felser, viola, is an undergraduate student from Denver, Colorado, and studies with Jeffrey Irvine.
April Lee, cello, is an undergraduate student from South Windsor, Connecticut, and studies with Richard
Weiss.
Karen Ferry, violin, is a master’s student from Cleveland, Ohio, and studies with Stephen Rose.
Sebastian Orellana, violin, is a master’s student from Chillán, Chile, and studies with Ilya Kaler.
Lourdes Pinney, viola, is an undergraduate student from Henderson, Nevada, and studies with Jeffrey
Irvine.
Annamarie Wellems, cello, is a master’s student from Lincolnshire, Illinois, and studies with Melissa
Kraut.
Noelle Naito, violin, is an undergraduate student from Elkridge, Maryland, and studies with Jaime
Laredo and Malcolm Lowe.
Jeremy Foster, violin, is an undergraduate student from Washington, DC, and studies with Stephen
Rose.
Aubrey Williamson, viola, is an undergraduate student from Austin, Texas, and studies with Jeffrey
Irvine.
Andrea Wang, cello, is an undergraduate student from Pleasanton, California, and studies with Melissa
Kraut.

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Icelandic violinist Sibbi Bernhardsson joined the Oberlin Conservatory faculty in 2017 after performing
for the previous 17 years with the Pacifica Quartet, with which he won a Grammy Award for Best
Chamber Music Performance, Musical America Ensemble of the Year honors, and the Avery Fisher
Career Grant.
As a member of the Pacifica Quartet, Bernhardsson appeared in more than 90 concerts worldwide each
year, including engagements in Wigmore Hall (London), the Vienna Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw
(Amsterdam), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall (New York), and other major
venues. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, and Reykjavík Arts Festival,
and has collaborated with Menahem Pressler, Yo-Yo Ma, Jörg Widmann, Lynn Harrell, Leon Fleisher,
Emerson String Quartet, Johannes Moser, and members of the Guarneri and Cleveland quartets. His
television appearances include The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, and the MTV Europe Music
Awards with Icelandic artist Björk. He appears on 16 recordings with the Pacifica Quartet and has
recorded the violin music of Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson and the violin sonatas by Franz Schubert.
Bernhardsson serves as director of the Cooper International Violin Competition at Oberlin and as artistic
director of Iceland’s Harpa International Music Academy. He gives regular concerts and masterclasses in
the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has appeared as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra,
Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, and other ensembles.
Bernhardsson is a 1995 graduate of Oberlin Conservatory. His teachers include Guðný Guðmundsdóttir,
Almita and Roland Vamos, Mathias Tacke, and Shmuel Ashkenasi. He previously served on the faculty of
the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

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